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Cinema Arts, BFA

81 credit hours 

The Bachelor of Fine Arts in Cinema Arts offers a rigorous focus on professional-style filmmaking. Students explore strategies, styles, and hands-on techniques for creating works of cinematic art. Students in the Bachelor of Fine Arts in Cinema Arts program will

  • Create films that are engaging and meaningful works of cinematic storytelling.
  • Be able to understand and master the style and technique of filmmaking.
  • Be versatile media producers, able to make the best use of the wide variety of tools and technology appropriate to any particular cinematic story.
  • Build and draw on a broad knowledge of the liberal arts in leading a collaborative creative process.
  • Assess creative work using the standards, language and history of cinema.

Requirements

The Bachelor of Fine Arts in Cinema Arts requires students to complete the following courses:

AMC 43000Arts Entrepreneurship

3
COM 10900Cinema Seminar

0
COM 11000Fundamentals of Oral Communication

3
COM 14000Introduction to Cinema Arts

3
COM 15400Video Production

3
COM 25600Television Production

3
COM 30700Writing for the Electronic Media

3
COM 32700Media Literacy

3
COM 35400Producing for Film and Video

3
COM 35700Editing for Film and Video

3
COM 35900Short Film Production

3
COM 37000History of World Cinema

3
COM 41700Narrative Screenwriting

3
COM 45101Cinema Capstone I

3
COM 45102Cinema Capstone II

3
DWD 20200Design with Photoshop

3

Students must also select three credit hours from the following:

Any course addressing either ILO 1.1.5 (GE-Human Culture: Philosophy) or ILO 1.1.6 (GE-Human Culture: Religion).

Students must also select three credit hours from the following:

ARTH 22200History of Western Art to 1300

3
ARTH 22400History of Western Art from 1300

3
COM 37500-37599Topics in Media Studies

1-3
TA 11700Introduction to the Theatrical Arts

3
TA 37100History of Theatre I

3

Students must also select three credit hours from the following:

ENGL 21500Introduction to Writing Fiction

3
ENGL 22200Writing Creative Non-Fiction

3
ENGL 25500Literary Craft for Writers

3

Students must also select three credit hours from the following:

Any 30000-level course addressing ILO 1.1.4 (GE-Human Culture: Literature).

Students must also select 18 credit hours from the following options:

ART 32900Concept Design

3
COM 37100-37199Topics in Production

1-3
COM 37200-37299Topics in Post-Production

1-3
COM 37300-37399Topics in Producing

1-3
COM 37400-37499Topics in Scriptwriting

1-3
COM 37500-37599Topics in Media Studies

1-3
COM 37600Asian Cinema

3
DWD 336003D Graphics

3
GAM 469003D Animation

3
GD 32200Motion Graphics

3
TA 10100Acting I

3

Plus six credit hours from the following options:

COM 30131Applied Mass Communication-Video I

1
COM 30132Applied Mass Communication-Video II

2
COM 30133Applied Mass Communication-Video III

3
COM 45000Communications Internship

3

The Bachelor of Fine Arts in Cinema Arts also requires the following:

  • An overall grade point average of 3.0 or higher
  • Satisfactory scores on assessment of program-level student outcomes in a review of the student’s portfolio upon completion of COM 35900.